Cyrus P. Gladden Ⅱ, Author at Just Future Project

Articles posted by Cyrus P. Gladden Ⅱ

A Closing Thought

The below came from “The Legal Pad” Volume 4, Issue 5, Article 13 (May 1, 2020) pp. 7-8 published by Cyrus P. Gladden, II from the gulag in Moose Lake, Minnesota. The below story is commonly found on the Internet without attribution. This version was adapted to reflect the experience of a shadow prisoner at gulag:Moose Lake by Chris Krych. “The Level of Communication” by Chris Krych “This is the story of four MSOP employees named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was asked to do it. Anybody could…

Illinois SO Probationers Score 1 for Internet Access

The below came from The Legal Pad, Volume 4, Issue 5 (May, 2020), published by Cyrus Gladden from the gulag in Moose Lake, Minnesota. (NARSOL, eds. : Ashley and Larry), “Blanket Social Media Bans Are Unconstitutional,” 12(6) the Digest. 5 (December 2019) “The Supreme Court of Illinois handed down a very important decision on Thursday, November 21, 2019. See People v. Morger, 2019 IL 123643, 1236439(1LSC). In a very comprehensive opinion, the court held in [that case] that a blanket social media ban as a condition of probation or parole is a violation of the First Amendment. The United States Supreme Court…

With This in Mind, Let’s Correct Therapeutic Misapprehensions about Volitional Control, Choice vs Orientation, and the Role of Fantasy and Legal Imagery in the Free World.

The below came from The Legal Pad, Volume 4, Issue 5 (May, 2020), published by Cyrus Gladden from the gulag in Moose Lake, Minnesota. (ed.), “Greetings to All,” 8(3) The Broadcast, Spring 2020, p. 1 Text excerpt: ” … Many therapists, well-intentioned, suffer from a lack of accurate information in the very issues they are charged with trying to resolve. My father used to tell me, ‘It is not what a man doesn’t know that hurts him. It is what he does know that isn’t so.’ One of the most egregious errors of fact that many therapists believe is that sex offenders…

Will Morger Be Followed in Minnesota?

The below came from The Legal Pad, Volume 4, Issue 5 (May, 2020), published by Cyrus Gladden from the gulag in Moose Lake, Minnesota. Elizabeth Tolon, “Updating the Social Network: How Outdated and Unclear State Legislation Violates Sex Offenders’ First Amendment Rights,” 85 Fordham L. Rev. 1827 (March 2017). [Text excerpt:] 1844-45: “Minnesota limited its social networking website ban to sex offenders … placed on ‘intensive supervised release.’ [citing: Minn. Stat. § 244.05(6)(c)]. These offenders are not only prohibited from using social networking sites but are banned from using instant messaging programs, chat rooms that permit people under eighteen to become a…

Covid-19 – Another Reason for SOCC Confinees to Have Internet Access & to Be Released to Provisional Discharge.

The below came from The Legal Pad, Volume 4, Issue 5 (May, 2020), published by Cyrus Gladden from the gulag in Moose Lake, Minnesota. Sex Offense litigation and Policy Resource Center, “Strategies for Reducing COVID-19 Exposure by Revising the Implementation of Registration Policies. Housing Banishment laws. and Other Restrictions Impacting People with Convictions,” March 28, 2020 Text Excerpt: “Suspend Internet access restrictions. Some people who are on probation or parole are forbidden from accessing wide swaths of the Internet, and some states have laws limiting Internet access for people listed on a conviction registry 10. During this crisis, access to the Internet…

Tablets of Stone: JPay & GTL Tablets May Be Free, But Using Them Is a Cost- Prohibitive Rip-off.

The below came from The Legal Pad, Volume 4, Issue 5 (May, 2020), published by Cyrus Gladden from the gulag in Moose Lake, Minnesota. Editor’s Note: Now let’s shift topics a little to talk about the various ways in which so-called ‘free tablets’ to prisoners and to SOCC confinees are not a substitute for internet access. In case you missed earlier TLP coverage of the advent of these tablets, they do not include any means of access to the internet. Even when you retrieve emails sent to you and send emails out (where this is even allowed at all via such tablets),…

Real-Time Automatic Remote Monitoring of SO’s Internet Use Antiquates Bans on Such Use by SOs.

The below came from The Legal Pad, Volume 4, Issue 5 (May, 2020), published by Cyrus Gladden from the gulag in Moose Lake, Minnesota. Karen Floren, “A Window into a Sex Offender’s Life: State Can Remotely Access and Monitor Computer Activity of Those on Probation,” The Day, March 29, 2020 Text excerpts: ” … [T]he state’s Court Support Services Division has acquired a software program that enables officers to remotely monitor the computer activity of probationers. Sex offenders who use the internet pay $24 a month for the monitoring service. About 43 offenders are being monitored with Impulse Control” “… [T]he software,…

Let’s Pause for a Reality Check with Dr. Fred

The below came from The Legal Pad, Volume 4, Issue 5 (May, 2020), published by Cyrus Gladden from the gulag in Moose Lake, Minnesota. Fred S. Berlin, ”Pedophilia and the DSM-5: The Importance of Clearly Defining the Nature of a Pedophilic Disorder,” 42 Jour. of Am. Acad. Psychiatry & Law 404-07 (2014) Text Excerpts: ” … The distinction between being sexually attracted to children in some fashion (e.g., experiencing urges to view child pornography) and experiencing urges to act on that attraction with a child can easily be lost.” “… At present, in discussing Pedophilia, DSM-5 makes reference to the term Pedophilic…

People v. Morger

The below came from The Legal Pad, Volume 4, Issue 5 (May, 2020), published by Cyrus Gladden from the gulag in Moose Lake, Minnesota. Editor’s Note: The following case in the Illinois Supreme Court applies Packingham v. North Carolina to a statutory, categorical ban on social media use by sex offenders on probation, finding it to be facially overbroad and hence a violation of the First Amendment rights of communication and personal and commercial interaction in the internet age. People v. Morger, 2019 IL 123643, _N.E.3d _ (Nov. 21, 2019) “Holdings: [3] statutory condition of probation was facially overbroad.” [Key points…

Newsletters/Magazines Cannot Be Banned by Institutions on Categorical or Discretionary Vague Claims of “Sexually Explicit” Verbal Descriptions Where Purpose Was legal Issue Coverage, Not Sexual Arousal.

The below came from The Legal Pad, Volume 4, Issue 5 (May, 2020), published by Cyrus Gladden from the gulag in Moose Lake, Minnesota. David M Reutter, “PLN Awarded Injunction in Arizona Prison Censorship Suit,” 31 (3) Prison Legal News 61 (March 2020) Text Excerpts: by David M. Reutter In November, 2019, PLN was awarded injunctive relief in a lawsuit challenging the Arizona Department of Corrections’ (ADC) “policy prohibiting sexually explicit material” as a violation of the First Amendment. As we previously reported, ADC censored the October 2014, April 2017, May 2017 and June 2017 issues of PLN. [See PLN, November 2019, p. 50.]…